Decatur Eagle, Volume 6, Number 8, Decatur, Adams County, 27 March 1862 — Page 1

THE DECATUR EAGLE.

VOL. 6.

DECATUR EAGLE. IS ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING, BY A . J . 111 LL, EDITOR, PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE—On Second Street, in Patterson’s building, oyerj-he Drug Store. Terms’of Subscription: One copy, one year, in advance, $1 00 If paid within the year, 1 50 If not paid until the year has expired, 2 On paper will be discontinued until all arreragps are paid except at the option of the Pub Usher. Terms of Advertising: One square,(ten lines) three insertions, $1 00 Each subsequent insertion, ‘25 ID-No advertisement will be constdered less than one square; over one square will be counted and charged as two; over two, as three, etc. ITT*A liberal discount, from the above rates, made on all advertisements inserted for a period longer three months. IT The above rateswill be strictly adhered to under all circumstances. JOB PRINTING: Wc are prepared to do all kinds of job-work, ina neat and workmanlike manner, on the mist reasonable terms. Our material for the completion of Job-Work, beinv new and of the lat est styles, we feel confident that satisfaction can be given. JEI F DAVIS. ON HIS ELECTION, AS PRESIDENT, FOR SIX TEARS. Satan was chain’d a thousand years, We learn, from Revelation — That he might not, as it appears, Longer “deceivt lhe nation.'’ ’Tis hard-to say, between the two, Which is the greaterevil, Six years of liberty, for you — A thousand, for the Devil! ’Ti» passing strange, if you’ve no fears Os being hang’d within six years! A hundred thousand rebels’ ears Would notone half repay The widows’ and the orphans’ tears, Shed for the slain today: The blood of those gallant braves, Whom Southern traitors slew, Cry sternly from their loyal graves, For vengance upon you; And, if you’re not prepar'd to die The death of Haman, fly, Jeff—fly! Fly, traitor, to some lonely niche. Far, far beyond the billow ; Thy grave an ill-constructed ditch— Thy sexton General Pillow. There may you turn to rottenness, By mortal uuannoyed, Your ashes ui’disturb’d, unless Your grave is known to Floyd. lie'll surely trouble you - repose. And come to steal your burial clothes. EPITAPH. Pause, for an in.tant, loyal reader. ■Here lies Jeff, the gieat seceder. Above, he always lied, yon know, And now the traitor lies below. His bow was furnished with two strings, He flattered crowdsand fiv n’d on kings; Repay’dhis country’s care with evil; And prayed to God, and serv’d the Devil. The South could whip the Yankee nation. So he proposed humiliation! Their blessings were so everlasting, ’Twas just the time for prayer and fasting! The record may be searched in vain, From West Point Benedict to Gain, To find a more attrocious knave, Unless in Cassar Borgia’s grave Forney's War Press. A man about town observed on the morning alter a debauch. “Had Leander practiced swimming with half the perseverance of my head he’d never have been drowned.” Quilp says that all sorts of bodily infirmities are petted by fair ladies as if they were positive charms, but he hasn’t seen the woman yet who could get up an elegant thing out of an influenza, or make a fine art of blowing her nose! The author of the following lines is destined to occupy a good position among our American poets. Who is he? O wunstl loved annuther gal Her name it was murrier but betsy deer my luv for u is forty times more hier. An abreviation not to be found in the books, is to be found on a tomb stone in Dunkirk. The mourners intended to put an old aunt to sleep with the customary phrase, ‘Let her rest in peace,’ but the space on the stone gave out at the clcse of the word ‘her.’ The ready wilted sculptor, however, inserted the initials, and now the old lady sleeps beneath the 1 laconic, but inelegant epitaph: ’Let her rip.’

TIIE E A G Ta E. Orchard Raising. Editor Eagle, Sir: I now propose to give a kind of review of what I have said \in regard to orchard raising. In the first place, we should procure sound thrifty trees, with low tops and stocky trunks, which will invariably secure plenty of root. Get trees two years old in preference to those of any other age. Having procured the trees, we should select a high and dry spot of ground, where it is practicable, with a gravelly subsoil.— Where this kind of soil can be had, the trees should be set deep in the ground, say from 12 to 16 inches. In a clay subsoil they should not be set so deep, but they should have equal if not greater depth of root, by putting dirt to the trees; in both cases leaning the trees to the south-west, so as to give them an inclination of about two inches to the foot.— Trees set in a gravelly subsoil will not need as much attention in ground cultivation as those set in clay subsoil. Al! trees should be mulched the first season, which should be removed in the forepart of August, especially if the tree has made a good growth. The top should be cut 1 verv short at the time of planting, or at least before the tress have made a growth after planting, The bodies should be kept free from sprouts. The tops should be pruned ir May or June. Over pruning is an evil that should be guarded against. The trees should be made to retain il.i ir portion by fastening them to stakes, until the tops are sufficiently large to protect th" body.- Cultivate the earth around the trees with a narrow ditching I spade, as it is decieedly the best implement that can be used for that purpose, i Cultivate deep, but not so deep as to ini terlere with the roots of the trees; should the trees grow too thrifty, cease cttltiva- : ting for a time. A vigorous early growth is desirable where it can be dried oi hardened so ns to withstand the winter. The wider apart trees are cultivated in the nursery, the better top and body they will form. L wis Jones of Wayne county, Ind , cultivates his trees 16 inches apart; thus giving them a much better chance than where they are set 6 and 8 inches ..part, as is the case in most nurseries, where trees are cultivated for tne market. This Lewis Jones lives a mile land a hall east of Centerville, the county seat of Wayne aounty, Ind. He has ai bout twenty-five thousand trees, from one to three years old, and sells them at 8 cis. per tree. He has over 150 diflerent varieties. In addition to the old varieties generally cultivated, he is cultivating some five or six new varieties, some of which he calls eternal bearers and a No. 1 quality of apple, very hardy trees, and one kind, of the belflower species, that will keep till July, i have about 60 trees from Jones’ nursery, which I set last fall, ! and can be seen at any time. They are hard to beat. If times were favorable, a great many trees fro n Jones’ nursery, would bo brought into this vicinity within a short time. There may be other nurseries as good as Mr. Jones’ but I knew of none, and I have taken some pains to try to find the cheapest and best trees.— I expect to get about 250 more of him this coming fall. And now Mr. Editor I am through with all I proposed, and will not send you anything more upon the subject, unless requested so to do. 1 would like to see the subject agitated until every farmer in the county has an orchard. Respectfully, etc. P. N. C. III HI An old friend from Springfield, lately called to see the President. After the usual greetings, <fcc., “Lincoln, (said he) ; when you turned out Cameron, why didn't you turn out all the rest of your C ibinet? [ ‘That, said the President, makes me I think of something that took place near home, in Illinois. As old farmer had been pestered with a whole colony of skunks, that depridated nightly on Lis poultry. He determined to rid of them, and finely succeeded in getting them all in one hole, where he could kill them at bis pleasure. He drew one forth by the tai! and executed him, but [said he telling the story,] this caused such an infernal stench that I was glad to let the ' rest run.’

“Our Country’s Good shall ever be our Aim—Willing to Praise and not afraid to Blame.”

DECATUI!, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, MARCH-27, 1862.

Details of the Capture of Newbern. New York, March 19.—The follow ing are the details of the battle at Newbern: Commodore Rowan was in command of the fleet of gun-boats, and had sunken vessels, torpedoes, and other rebel obstructions. to overcome and pass, but surmounted all with but slight damage to only two of his fifteen vessels. Two brigs or barks and nineteen schooners were sunk by the rebels above two rebel bat.eries. The latter were silenced, the sunken vessels passed, and our fl ig hoisted over the silenced batteries as our force went along. This was on Saturday afternoon, and night closed in. Sunday morning a heavy fog set in, hut lifted, when our boats passed up safely, silenced | Fort Thompson, with its two heavy columbiads; then Fort Edis, with nine guns, was captured, after pretty brisk fighting, but the rebels fled soon in a panic, and our 11 ig waved overnnother fort. Only one fort was left to be engaged, an 1 New [ bern would be at the mercy us our troops- [ This was Fort Lane, but the rebels Lav ing enough of the boats, offered little if I any resistance, and lied. The rebels then fired a large number of scows filled with rosin and turpentine, intending to float them down and burn our gun boats, but they got stuck and burnt away furiously. The gun boats then shelled the depot .and track, but our troops had then cross-i-ed, and a white flag was hoisted. Our navy did not lose a man. Operations on the land were briefly as I follows: Our troops landed twelve miles below Newbern, General IL no’s Brigade in the advance, most ol the troops being iso anxious to Land that nearly every regi ! ment jumped into the water and waded (ashore, and the whole division w ,s ashore in less than two hours. Aller inarching | two miles they found a deserted rebel i camp with fires burning and hot rebel breakfasts untasted. A breastwork was (only passed, and the division bivouacked I for the night, and early in the morning skirmishing began. Foster’s Brigade, comprising the Mas ; srehusetts Twenty-fourth, Twenty filth, 'Twenty sixth and Twenty-third, with the Tenth Connecticut in reserve, were in line, and engaged a twenty-gun battery of the rebels on their left flank, who show ;ered grape, canister and shell upon them; ; also heavy musketry from their infantry. The Second Brigade, comprising the : Twentv first Massachusetts, Fifty-first New York, Fifty-first Pennsylvania and Ninth New Jersey, engaged them on the right. The Third Brigade took position in i front. j The First. Brigade bore the brunt of the battle, and the Twenty-fourth Massachusetts soon had Major Stevenson and Lieut. Horton wounded, and the Twenty third Massachusetts lost Lieutenant-CM. Merritt by a cannon ball carrying away one side of his body. The Tenth Connecticut were ordered to support the Twen | ty-seventh Massachusetts, which had suffered severely. i The Third Brigade, together with with the Second, executed a flank movement, [and the order to charge bayonets was ■ given. A hand to hand fight ensued, of I the most desperate character, when our troops drove the rebels out al the point of the bayonet, charging them out of sight. The rebel troops took possession of a railroad train, and fled from Newbern, burning bridges, the Washington House, some private dwellings, and a number of whisky and turpentine distilleries. Slaves had commenced pillaging, but were stopped. A number of Unionists were found in the city. Taxes on Newspapars.—The editor of the Southern Tier, published in Belmont, Alleghany County, drops a tear over the proposed tax on newspapers, as follows: Printeis are growing rich so fast that , they can afford to pay three limes the tax of any one else to the Government. Let those who have the money, bleed; and printers are proverbially rich and prosperous everywhere. Lay on the tax, therefore. Put on §2O a head for each habv that shall be added to the printer’s circle of household gods. “A child in a ; house is a weli-spriug of pleasure,” and wnat right has a printer to pleasure, without he pays a tax on that kind of luxury? j None whatever. Tax him, tax the pegs in his cowhide boots, the patches on the ■ seat of his pantaloons, the holes in the elbow of his coal, and the crownless hat I that adorns his caput. By all means, be sure and tax him at least four times as heavily as any body else is taxed. “Dead men tell no tales,” and dead presses will be silent in regard to Government robberies and Government oppression. Put on the tax! Thare is a current belief that a wolf is never more dangerous than when he feels ■ sheepish.

I Jeff. Thomson Moving on Cape Girardeau—Appal ing Condition of Memphis— The Fight at Island No. 10. Chicago, March 20.—A dispatch to the Tribune from Cairo, says that a report ,is current this morning, from Sikestown, that Jeff. Thompson was marching upon I Cape Girardeau, pressing men and horMses into the Confederate service. A ' skirmish has taken place between the U- ' i nion forces and his advance. Three of thaonemy were killed and wounded.— Re enforcements have been sent to the Cape. A gentleman who lias been a con'ractor at Memphis, left there on Thursday ar 1 arrived last evening, reports that ! Gov. Harris disappeared from Memphis ! on the second day after the one to which ■ the Legislature adjourned. Harris has not been heard from since. He is sup posed to be at Corinth, Miss. The Legislatuie adjourned, and has gone, no one knew whither. The subject of burning the city, in ease I evacuation were secessary, is still discussed. There has been no impressment of Union citizens into the Confederate service, to any extent, except for guard duty, until since the fall of Fort Donelson. Since Gov Harris’ proclamation, impressments have been general. Hundreds are picked up in the streets, taken from stores and dwellings, and inarched 1 off to camp Io receive instruction at tile ; point of the bayonet. Ihe fl >aiing battery is so construWed as to be sunk to the water’s edge, leaving nothing exposed except the armament, which consists of nine Dahlgren guns, which are built for the protection of Memphis. It has been towed to Island No. ID i Hollins’ steam ram has also been sent there. Union men, are leaving Memphis in great numbers, leaving property to be I confiscated, glad toescape with their lives. Quarrels in the streets were of: | frequent occurrence between Union men and Secessionists. Shots were hourly exchanged. The i-tbels greatly needed iron, and have offered twenty five thousand dollars ■to any artisan that will discover the process of malting malleable iron. Aminu-j nition was plenty. Manufactories w.-re w o king day and night in the vicinity of Memphis. There were no mail facilities I except along the railroad routes. Letters and papers are carried from town to town by private enterprise. Another correspondent telegraphs that he left Island No. 10. yesterday noon.— I lie firing was only moderate from the Benton and Mound City, at intervals of 15 minutes each, the object being to re- . duce the upper battery. Five guns were dismounted arid two left, from which occasional shots were fired. Some of them . came very near our boats. The works both on the main land and is.aml are far ' more extensive than is generally supposed. • j There are at least eighty guns, manv ’of them the largest size several rifled, and twenty thousand troops. Ten regi-! ments were seen on dress parade on the mainland. Their quarters outreach the mortars. The island is pietty well covered with i tents. Shells reach all parts of the island [and works. It is evident all the rebel batteries have bomb proof casemates, ns the men can he : seen to disappear when shells fall into - their batteries. | As soon as the upper fort is reduced, ■ the gunboats will advance in detail. On Tuesday night the Mound City kept up a steady fire on the upper fort, prevent i ing the rebels from making their usual night repairs. The result was that early in the morning they commenced removing the dead and wounded (torn the casemates of the fort. Large numbers were .carried out and taken back into the woods. On Monday nine hundred shot were; fired from the gunboats, mostly shell, besides three hundred shell from the mortars. On Tuesday Com. Foote directed the fuses to be wet and prolong their discharge, with the view to destroy the works and dismount the rebel guns. The result was satisfactory. I As yet but one man has been killed by the enemy. j i The late earl of Kelly was relating in a company that had listened tn a sermon in Italy, in which the preacher described [the alledged miracle of St. Anthony preaching to the fish, which, in order to listen to him, held their heads out of water. ‘I can believe the miracle,’ said Erskine, ‘if your lordship was at church.’ ‘I was certainly there,’ said the peer. ‘Then,’ rejoined Heury, 'there was at lea t one fish out of water.’ To keep warm on a cold day. women double the cape and men double the horn.

A good reply was made by one of the soldiers at Port RoKal, w o had been at work on the in trench men Is so long and constantly that he had no time to clean his gun. He appeared on parade with his rusty piece, and Col. Whipple accosted him. Said the Colonel, “Doni appear on inspection again with yonr gun iu such a condition.” Colonel, I know the gun bin’t just right, hut 1 have got the brightest shovel over in the entrenchments you ever saw,” replied the soldier. The Col. saw the point, acknowedged the j (he coin by a graceful bow, and passed down the line. Manufacture of Bomb Shells ~-Sev era! firms Hi this city ate at present enI gaged in the inaftufaetuxe ol shells for tiie Government, and are turning out daily ■ large quantities. After a shell has been [ finished, many are puzzled to determine, j there being hut a single little hole in the ■ hollow ball, how the core is taken out.— The core is composed of sand anil fl.mr, and after being properly molded and fin- ! ished, is placed in an oven and baked like j a lost ofhread until it becomes hard. The hot metal, when it is poured i nto the mold, burns the flour out, and crumbles so as to be easily taken out. — [ Phil idelp’a Press The Pea Ridge Battle-Rebel Account. The Nashville Times, of the 15th, has the following: We conversed with a gentleman who i arrived in the city yesterday direct from the South, and he informed us that the Memphis papers of Tuesday published an account of the recent bloody battle between the Confed -rates an 1 Federal* on the borders of Arkansas, and that they claimed a brilliant victory for G' neral Price’s army. They put down the loss on the Confederate side at two thousand killed and wounded, and on the Federal at six thousand. This must be a very high estimate, thongh it was undouptedly a very bloody battle They state that Generals McCulloch and Mclntosh were both killed and that the loss of officers on the Confederate side wi g iery greatI Presentation to the President — Hon. Mr. Train, accompanied by a party of Massachusetts gentlemen, called on the President yesterday, and presented him ; with a whip valued at §2OO, made hr the Westfield Company, and splendidly mounted. On r-ceiving it, the President pleas an Jy remarked that to him it neither sug i gested the whipping of rebels, nor h whipping of negroes, but those cumin; dajs of peace when he could sit behind a good pair of horses, and drive through a happy and prosperous Inn I.— Washington Correspondence of the Philadelphia Enguirer. I~ r w The Sumter in a Fix —There is something decided!} cool in the quiet persist-, i ence witfi which the Tuscarora sticks to i her duty of watching the rebel privateers. ' Foiled by the British Admirably order, ■ in her attempt to catch the Nashville, she 1 promptly betook herself to the Medilteranean, to nab the Sumter, which, according to last accounts, was lying at Gibral- ; tar, endeavoring to beg, borrow, or steal coal enough to bring her back to Ameri- ; ca. We now hear that the Tuscarora is i I standing guard over the privateer, and under circumstances that are interresting [ I She has taker, np her anchorage at Or ange Grove, which though bringing her ; , within three miles of the Sumter, is slill w thin Spanish waters. The sinister, British provision winch compels the armed vessels of one brLigeretit, to wait twen tv-four hours after the departure of armed : vessels of the other belligerent before leaving the port will therefore have no application to this case; for while the Sumter is in a British port the Tuscarora is in a Spanish port, th >ugh at such proximity as to brirg the pirate ship vitliin range of her long guns! The “situation” is decidedly »n interesting one, and we may shortly expect to hear of a stirring catas- [ ; trophe. The cost of the Monitor is eslimsted at' §275.000, about halt the cost of first class ; sailing frigate, like the Congress. Iron' i vessels are safe against dry rot and the [ usual sources of decay iu wooden vessels, and are worth much more when old en- 1 i ough to break up. Their repairs are vei y [ light, and they may be efficiently manned by a crew equal in strength to on'y one. j third or a half of one of our frigates, and would therein effect a great saving in our naval expenditures. The comparative efficiency even entirely out of the question, i true economy would dictate the multiplication of this class of vessels. In Bavaria, Clermont county, Ohio, the boys who are too young to go to the war have formed a company, which tliev call the “Siwbuck Rangers,” the members of which agree to saw the wood of women whose husbends are in the war. The boy who undertook to ride a horseradish, is now practicing on a saddle of good mutto.i.

Very Severe Ou John C. Fremont t In a late speech in the House of Rip. • reser.tatives, Mr. Wardsworth, a Union member from the Ninth Ohio, c i May s- . ville District, said; t “To-day we have the lesioratiou of i John C. Eremont to his military command ■ over a portion of Kentucky, too—a Slate : which despises him, reeking, as he is, ■ with fraud and corruption, with the death . ol Lyon —lnro ol the war—and the cap- ■ ture of Mu ligau on his skirls Witli I these charges against him untried lie is Appointed to the command of lhe "Motintnin Department,” and \'cClellnn restricted to the command of the Potomac, and Buell and Rosecrans and Garfield and ’ Grant, mid ail the proven soldiers of the war overslaughed, as it were. Aft tYiese things shows that, this day, that class of men to whom I have alluded, and that political idea to which 1 have al uded. are and is all powerful in the administia lion of the Government, and I, lor one, can not give my confidence to it under ; these circumstances. Ido not wish to vote it, without question and without limitation or inquiry, taxes to carry on this war for dang-rous ends. lam fur the war for the Union in all its length and breadth, and the necessary means to support it. lam for the Union from '[ the lakes to the Gulf, and from ocean to ; ocean. Senator Douglas’ Opinion of Senator Sunnier. Il there was any man that the lamented [ Senator Douglas regarded with abhor- ! rence, it was Senator Sumner, of Massachusetts Here is a portrait that he drew of him in debate in 1854. Addressing himself to him he said: I “Is there any thing in the means by i which he got here to give him a superiority over other gentlemen who came by [ordinary means? Is there any thing to ■ justify it in the fact that he came here J with a deliberate avowal that he would [never obey one clause of the Constitution ■of the United Slates, and vet put I.is [band upon the Holy Bible, in the presJ ence of this body, and appealed to Al; ! mighty God to witness that he would be [ faithful to the Constitution, with a pledge luf perjury on his soul, by violating both that oath a.id the Constitution? He came here with a pledge to perjure him ■ I sell as the condition of eligibility to the ■ place. Has he a right to arraign us because we have felt it to be our duty to be faithful to that Constitution which he dis [ avows, to that oath which he assumes and then repudiates? The Senate have not forgotten lhe debate on the Fugitiveslave Law, when that Senator said, in reply to a question whether he wss in favor [of carrying into effect that clause of the i Constitution for the rendition of fugitivn slaves: ‘ls thy Servant a dog, that he , should do this thing?’ A dog, to be true jto the Constitution of your country ? A [ dog, unless you are a traitor? That was [ his position; and still he comes here, and arraigns us for crime, and talks about audacity? Did inorral man ever witness such audacity in an avowed criminal?” A Disaster in the Evacuation of Columbus. — A terrible disaster befell t|-m rebels in their evacuation >1 Columbus — Uh.e steamer Prince left that place on the ! 28th ult , crowded with rebel soldiery, [on their way to New Madrid. The boat [ was snagged and sunk in the chute, four i miles above Hickman. She went down : suddenly, the water being over her hur- | ricane deck. Seventy-five soldiers are I known to have perished. She had also on board 196 kegs of powder, and consid- : erable flour and other provisions. Two immense water tanks, used lor supplying I water for the troops on the Columbus bluffs, were on her hurricane deck. Many ol her passengers succeeded in getting into the tanks as she went down, and were thus rescued from drowning. Nothing was si ved from the wreck. The safe, containing a large sum of Confederate j money, was lost. - - I Evacantion of Acquia < reck—Capture of Fort Macon. Florida. | Washington, March 19. — The steam j tug Leslie, which arrived here late last •night, repoits that when she passed Aci quia the buildings and wharf there were ,on fire, the supposition being that the i rebels have evacuated the place and burI ned the buildings. Dispatches received at the Navy De' paitmenl, from Flag officer Dupont, announce that the fl-ig of the United States floats over Fort Macon, at San Augustine, Fla. The town was surrendered without fighting. Tito town authorities ■ received Commander Rogers in the town hall, and. after being assured that lie would protect the lor al ci liz ns, they I raised the flag with their own hands.— ’ The rebel troops evacuated lhe place the night before the appearance of the gunboats, This is the second of the old forts taken. Jacksonville, Fla., wss also surrendered in like manner, The Governor of Florida has ri commended the entire tvacua'iou of Fust Florida.

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